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THE SCIENCE GALLERY at Trinity College, Dublin says that Google.org has presented it with a €1 million gift to help it launch a global network of galleries.
In total, Google has donated over $100 million to a range of organisations around the world, including projects supporting girls’ education, groups combating human trafficking and slavery, and to support science, technology, engineering and maths studies.
The gallery says it has received over 800,000 visitors since opening in early 2008. Its 18 exhibitions to date have ranged from fashion to infection.
Founding director of the gallery Dr Michael John Gorman said that Google’s donation would help the gallery to “scale its impact internationally”.
“Our vision is to share Science Gallery’s unique approach to public engagement at the interface of science and art,” he said, adding:
We’re planning eight Science Gallery hubs around the world by 2020, developed in partnership with leading universities in key cities such as London and Moscow. In each city, we tap into a vibrant local creative community of researchers, designers, artists and entrepreneurs to engage and inspire the next generation of innovators.
Google’s Geo Operations director David Martin said that Google saw the potential for bringing the gallery’s Dublin success to other cities.
Martin described the gallery’s operations as “a very vivid and engaging example of the innovative spirit that we often talk of as critical to Ireland’s future”.
The Global Science Gallery Network is due to launch in July 2012, while Dublin is the European City of Science.
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well done Google
Good call google. The trinity science gallery is a brilliant way for the public to engage with the science community
Brilliant news…..Thank u, Mr Google!
I think the science gallery is actually rather disappointing. One exhibit was just a load of pills stuck to clothes. This may be art but I was hoping for science. Just my two cents.
I agree. I paid a visit a few months back and was a bit disappointed at how little there actually was there. Huge periodic table with empty spaces for elements was only about 1/4 filled. Some different periodic tables on the walls which were essentially art. I didn’t feel like I gained any scientific knowledge from it. A fine way to pass half an hour, but that’s about it.
Great to see the concept evolving. I think it’s a very interesting project. One that came up in recent conversation with friends was actually the thought that the Science Gallery at Trinity is a bit isolated. We were thinking that with the Dublin city centre being quite spread out the Gallery should do some temporary street exhibitions around the different areas…like the IFSC, O’Connell street, Grand Canal Square – Imagine a weekend installation in front of the Theatre…on the science of performance art?
Great corporate citizenship
One of the French revolutionaries once said: “I don’t believe in charity” and they ask him why? He responded the democratic deficit of a society is measured by how philanthropist a society is! To have People begging for scraps and others giving from their excess show an imbalance that has no place in a Democratic society!!
That sounds more like a socialist/communist society than a democratic one
Imbalance is a reality of the human condition…so why would it not manifest in how we live in society?
+1
Such giant companies fueled our economy years ago with our low tax incentive. Established a real I.t. Hub and service centers of excellence.
Google Ireland reported a turnover of €10 Billion in 2010 and paid 5.6 million in tax instead of 1.25 Billion in tax using a system called a “Double Irish” and a “Dutch Sandwich”.
you don’t pay tax on turnover, you pay it on net profit.
You’re right of course – let’s tax the arse out of them so they take their business elsewhere, who needs their good jobs, expensive office purchases and charitable donations, the b****rds.
Google you rock! :)
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